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Definition of Sophora japonica
1. Noun. Handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan.
Group relationships: Genus Sophora, Sophora
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophora Japonica
Literary usage of Sophora japonica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"Pagoda Tree (sophora japonica) CHINA and Japan, 1763. A large deciduous tree,
with elegant pinnate foliage and clusters of greenish-white flowers produced ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"sophora japonica var. pendula, in winter. obovate to linear-oblong, silky-pubescent:
fls. in 2-8-fld. racemes, pendulous, about 1 )/£ in. long: pod 4-winged ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson (1855)
"sophora japonica, Ailanthus glandulosa, the Sasanqua and Camellia, the Anise tree
... and sophora japonica; while the deliciously scented Olea fragrans, ..."
4. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"... as well as in certain inveterate cutaneous diseases.3 ' Martins on Wai-fa,
th"e flower-buds of sophora japonica, Pharm. Journ., AUK-, 1854, p. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to by Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859)
"sophora japonica, the Japan Sophora ; white. 2. sophora japonica pendula, the
weeping Sophora ; white. 2. ..."
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